Are we really free?
Administration after administration promised reform. Some delivered progress. Many fell short. Corruption survived.
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Administration after administration promised reform. Some delivered progress. Many fell short. Corruption survived.
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Marcos had pledged that 37 lawmakers, government officials and contractors would be in jail by Christmas 2025. Christmas came and went, but the scandal did not.
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The Senate can recover its stature if its members choose dialogue over confrontation and loyalty to the institution over allegiance to factions.
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Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso urged young Filipinos on Wednesday to anchor public discourse in evidence and ideas rather than personal attacks,…
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The evil of corruption persists because when the moral majority stay silent, their inaction becomes a structural enabler for this evil to thrive.
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Without accuracy, judgment is impaired. And an impaired judgment leads to intellectual dishonesty and the denial of truth.
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Long silence. The nation is weeping now. Not because Win is Chinese. The most painful part was Risa was the last to know.
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Rodrigo’s fans have continued to support and defend her as the issue gained wider attention online.
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Nosy Tarsee has a riddle for you: A prominent politician from a powerful business family with Chinese roots was born in the Philippines when both his parents…
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Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso appealed to national leaders Monday to set aside political rivalries and find common ground to resolve the…
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How do we explain to other nationalities why our political system is this way, let alone to ourselves, who have long allowed it to happen?
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The whispers have graduated into full-blown chatter, and a recent Metro Manila sighting may have just turned speculation into something harder to dismiss.
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Democracies do not erode only when courts are abolished or Congress is shut down. They also erode when institutions remain intact but are used so selectively…
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A former government official has reinvented herself as a fierce government critic — conveniently forgetting that she was once among its biggest beneficiaries.
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The Senate should be a forum for reasoned debate, not a stage for play acting or a circus performance under a P. T. Barnum tent.
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The corrupt officials — the ‘crocs’ Barzaga calls them — have had decades to entrench themselves, gorge themselves, protect themselves, and perfect the art of…
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I must confess that at this stage, I am confused and hoping that the Supreme Court will rule on this stalemate.
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Some people have a bucket list. Trillanes has a docket list. Some are more interested in who gave Sonny batteries. That’s the real mystery.
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